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FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1866.— Stated Meeting. 



The Veey Eev. Chaeles Geaves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



The Eev. Dr. Caesost, in the unavoidable absence of the Secretary 

 of Council, read the following 



Eepokt oe the Council. 



Since our last Eeport was submitted to the Academy the following 

 Papers in oar " Transactions" have been printed, and issued to our 

 members, viz. : — 



In the department of Science : — ■ 



1. "On the Semi-diurnal Tides of Cahirciveen," by the Eev. 

 Samuel Haughton, M. D. 



2. " On the Granites of the County of Donegal," by the same 

 author. 



3. " On the Proof of Sir Isaac Newton's Eule for the Discovery 

 of Imaginary Eoots in Algebraic Equations," by Professor J. J. Syl- 

 vester. 



In the Department of Polite Literature : — 



1. " On the Assyrio-Eabylonian Measures of Time," by the Eev. 

 T. Hincks, D. D. 



2. " On the Various Years and Months in Use among the 

 Egyptians," by the same author. 



In the Department of Antiquities : — 



1. "On Cairns, Cromlechs, Kistvaens, and other Celtic, Druidi- 

 cal, or Scythian Monuments in the Dekhan," by Colonel Meadows 

 Taylor. 



2. " On Ancient Cairns on Twizell Moor in Northumberland," by 

 the same author. 



3. " Concluding Memoir on MS. Mapped and other Townland Sur- 

 reys in Ireland," by Mr. W. H. Hardinge. 



4. " On the Earliest Known MS. Census Eeturns of the People of 

 Ireland," by the same author. 



Of the " Proceedings," two Parts have been published, viz. : — the 

 1st and 2nd Parts of Yol. IX. ; the 3rd Part of the same volume is just 

 ready for issue ; and portions of a fourth Part are already in type. 



A great number of interesting communications have been brought 

 before the Academy during the past year. We have had papers on Sci- 

 ence from the President, the Eev. Professor Haughton, the late Sir "W. 

 E. Hamilton, Professor Sylvester, and Mr. W. H. Griffiths, Professor 

 Huxley, and Dr. Perceval Wright ; on Polite Literature, from the Eev. 

 Dr. Hincks, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Joyce, and Mr. Morisy ; and on Anti- 

 quities, from Mr. Hardinge, Eev. J. Shearman, Mr. W. M. Hennessy, 

 Mr. Conwell, and Mr. Du Noyer. 



